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Self described "single Dad, no kids" Michael Wheeler is a wildly popular Instagram model and humorist and since he currently resides in Portland OR where I was spending several weeks directing a play this fall. I decided to meet up with him and shoot a series of surreal, sexy, and slightly somber portraits on my rare off day.

someone politely said my Boarding School work sounds like classy stoner music so with that "compliment" in mind I give you the album version of Try and it's chill out, hypnotic, kaleidoscopic new video. Enjoy! 🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄

My work with Defunkt Theatre continues in the 2017-2018 season !This fall I will be directing Insignificance by Terry Johnson at Defunkt in my former home of Portland, Oregon. and as Artistic Director-at-large I'm proud to announce our commitment to access and inclusiveness has never been stronger :

Beginning with our 2017/18 Season all individual show tickets are pay-what-you-can! Accessibility is a core value at Defunkt, and we are proud to expand our pay-what-you-can policy to all performances. We live and breathe for great theater, and we want the work we do to be available to EVERYONE. Thank you to our generous longtime supporters for making this move possible. Great things are in store in the year ahead: we will see you at the theater!

Try remix ep is out now everywhere so GET IT! Featuring the single Try (from A Marbled Swarm, A Hornet's Tongue) and remixes by DJTX, E. Chuthers, Reykjavík Haze and Saint Caedmon along with a radically reworked new recording of In The Cities Where Our Lovers Dream recorded this past winter in Iceland.

Behold! the brand spanking new video forWrong by Boarding School !!!
A surreal slow motion cascade of candy colored animals offer the viewer a hypnotic break from the doldrums of their everyday lives. Wrong is the opening track to A Marbled Swarm, A Hornet's Tongue available now from Le Garçon Sale Records.

Decided to resurrect the Mythical Beast/Domesticated Animals series from 2012 (now just titled Domesticated Animals (and designated by city) These were shot in a surprisingly cold winter getaway to Amsterdam in February 2017.

A brand new video debut! A Marbled Swarm, A Hornet's Tongue is a witchy, grimy, hypnotic throwback to 90's era music videos you'd obsess over late night on MTV's 120 Minutes program. Shot on location in southern Iceland, it is teh title track from Boarding School's brand new album.

A Marbled
Swarm, A Hornet's Nest" is the sophomore album and yet third full
length release from Boarding School following Mute Songs Vols 1 &
2. Inspired by the work of controversial author Dennis Cooper as well
being the first Boarding School written and recorded domestically in the
United States in Klaus-Vineyard's newly adopted home town of Seattle
Washington.

Electric Sheep is the ambient/artnoise composition that will provide the score to a new video installation work later this year. it was recorded and remixed during the same sessions as the upcoming "A Marbled Swarm, A Hornet's Tongue" (out 01-13-2017 on Le Garçon Sale Records). The 48 min sound-design piece runs the gamut from anxiety-inducing dissonance to hypnotic late night trip-hop and back again.

" Klaus-Vineyard and the cast have honored Mac’s
play, but kicked it up a notch with their with great attention to
making the characters’ internal conflicts seem real. Access is a theme
around which much of Taylor Mac’s work revolves. Defunkt lets you in for
a while to a version of Mac’s past, through a joy ride of the
transformative power of play. " -Oregon Artswatch

M/JOHN/W is the latest release from Boarding School on Le Garçon Sale Records . M/JOHN/W originally appeared as part of the score for Defunkt Theatre's multiple award nominated production of Cock by Mike Bartlett . The ambient sound design composition appears here in a slightly reworked form. You can grab a copy here, it's pay what you will as always!

Actor and writer David for the bedroom series. David and I have worked together on numerous theatre productions over the last decade and was a pleasure to finally get him in front of my lens wrapping up the bedroom series.

After appearing in two back to back critically acclaimed stage productions (Cock by Mike Bartlett & the controversial masterpiece Blasted by Sarah Kane) up and coming actor Clifton tries out a new role as model for the Bedroom series. A Midwesterner relocated to the Pacific Northwest Clifton is a talented actor on the rise and we look forward to his continued success in the near future.

Actor Clifton has had quite the year with the lead roles in Cock by Mike Bartlett and most recently in the critically acclaimed production of Blasted by Sarah Kane (both staged at Defunkt Theatre). A gifted and tremendously talented actor ( and first time model) one of the final participants of the Passages and Bedroom series which comes to it's conclusion this month.

Author Nick Mattos joins the Passages series. Nick has been a long time friend and collaborator having appeared in my film I Am Not Myself Today, the feature film Spark and in work created for Pulse. Nick was a long time contributor to Just Out and PQ Monthly among other publications writing on spirituality, relationships and LGBT issues.

Artist Chris Hall joins the ranks of the Bedroom series. The
Portland-based multimedia artist mixes painting, photography, and
projection based work critiquing social issues in our media culture. Only three more models remain for the series. Lucky 13. then collected into book form and slide show for presentation.

Eight naked men, in alphabetical order in my bed. As I finalize the last remaining shoots for the bedroom series in Portland and gear up for my next grand adventure this summer I thought I'd revisit some of the previous shoots with a few outtakes. Enjoy

Heliotrope continues the glitch based deconstruction of archival photos taken in the late 90's-early 2000s. The images were shot with low res early digital cameras and are being manipulated through a variety of apps, and processes before final printing. It's a dialog between the artist I once was and the one I have become.

Broken Bits series is inspired by the late 80's early 90's childhood and teenage years- specifically the glitches seen in Nintendo NES games. Combined with that other adolescent obsession like late nights, contraband porn, and horror movies the aesthetic is a scrambled nightmare of have concealed pixels based on source material form my archives.

As if I haven't been busy enough between producing theatre and my art career I'm actually hard at work in my fleeting off time on a new Boarding School record tentatively titled Automatic Hiawatha. It'll be out sometime before the end of 2016 but I decided to drop a teaser of a few tracks (still in demo form) in the meantime.
Enjoy.

New series Viridescent sort of spontaneously birthed itself out of the Digital Debris practice. More4 focused on impressionisti, painterly manipulated portatuer than the repatitive pop art style of debris' fractured glitches. It's yet another exploration of the way technology interfaces with expression. Memory has always been best represented as a disolve to me, an inkblot bleeding at the edges of perception and conciousness. A little nightmarish, a little sexy, a queasy green feeling of fear and envy.